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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has responded to the International Criminal Court’s rumored plans to indict Israeli officials for war crimes by claiming that for the ICC to do so would be an “antisemitic hate crime”.
Rebecca Weiner is a Columbia U. professor who also serves as intelligence director of the NYPD. Mayor Eric Adams credits her with spying on anti-genocide student protesters and directing the militarized raid that dislodged them from campus.
BY WYATT REED AND MAX BLUMENTHAL
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TheGrayzone.com https://thegrayzone.com/2024/05/02/columbia-crackdown-university-nypd/
As our calendar of racism and resistance shows, within days of the passage of the Safety of Rwanda Act, which received Royal Assent last week, and days before local elections in England, the Home Office began detaining asylum seekers as they arrived for routine immigration bail appointments and rounding them up nationwide in immigration raids, as if they were public enemies – which the government tries to pretend they are – and protesters against the Act, demonstrating outside immigration centres are being arrested too. No wonder increasing numbers of terrified asylum seekers are fleeing from Britain to Ireland, whose supreme court has ruled that since the Rwanda deal, the UK is no longer a safe country to which asylum seekers can be returned.
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Recent weeks have seen maps such as this becoming increasingly familiar. As the fortresses of the Donbass fall, so do the fortunes of the Ukrainian Army. Photo ©️ SlavyangradRecent weeks have seen accelerated progress by Russian forces in the Donbass region, the Ukrainians being on the back foot time and again. This short article shall examine why this is happening.
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Askhat Akhmedyarov (Kazakhstan), Autumn Purge, 2012.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
It was inevitable that the Global North governments’ full-throated support for Israel’s genocide against Palestinians would result in furious retribution from their citizenry. That this retribution began in the United States is also not a surprise, given the ongoing cycle of protests that, since October 2023, have contested the US government’s blank cheque to the Israeli government. The US bankrolling of Israel’s extermination campaign against Palestinians includes over one hundred weapons shipments to Israel since 7 October and billions of dollars of aid.
Repression of Campus Palestine Solidarity Reveals the Nature of the State
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Campus protests in solidarity with Palestine have been met with brute police force and condemnation of the participants. Their mobilization is a threat to the political system, which cannot operate as the ruling class would like if large numbers of people engage in active dissent.
According to Belarussian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, the future of the world is being decided in Ukraine.
During his speech at the All-Belarusian People’s Assembly, the President of the Republic of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, showed deep geopolitical knowledge when he said that the future of the world is being decided in Ukraine. In fact, Russia’s special military operation is proving to be the main global event of recent decades, being a central point for changes in the international scenario.
The great and the good have just finished attending a special World Economic Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The theme of the conference for the over 1000 delegates from corporations, governments and international agencies was global cooperation and inclusive growth. In other words, how to reverse the growing international trade wars and rising inequality of income and wealth with policies of cooperation and inclusive economic measures.
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“Zionism is a false idol”
This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name
It is called the military-entertainment-complex. The Pentagon is deeply involved in the production of pop culture, from spy shows and war movies, to light entertainment like “The Price is Right” and “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” the military has had a hand in shaping them all.
Cartoon by Carlos Latuff
Staying Power – by Mr. FishIn the conflicts I covered as a reporter in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, I encountered singular individuals of varying creeds, religions, races and nationalities who majestically rose up to defy the oppressor on behalf of the oppressed. Some of them are dead. Some of them are forgotten. Most of them are unknown.
Caitlin Johnstone
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Kids are taking over university campuses around the world for the noblest possible reason anyone could do such a thing in 2024. There are so many reasons to feel pessimistic, but Gen Z’s fierce opposition to the Gaza genocide is a massive reason to have hope for the future.
As activists in Canada recently learned, mass protest cannot compel a government to reject war. Why is this so, and what is the alternative?
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Israel is subjecting Rafah to airstrikes. DPA via ZUMA PressThere’s a common joke in Gaza these days. It suggests that the most humane Israeli is the minister who effectively called for a nuclear bomb to be dropped on us during the early stages of the current war.
The Rwanda Deportation sham continues to dominate British politics causing relentless trauma.
This comes at a time when we’ve been told that there is no money left for anything; after the previous short-lived administration crashed the economy, at a time when school meals were cut, people are dying in cold homes, when it has been impossible to find a home, our waters are polluted by water companies, when millions of people rely on food banks, the list goes on.
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (Portugal), A Poesia Está Na Rua I [Poetry Is out on the Street I], 1974.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Fifty years ago, on 25 April 1974, the people of Portugal took to the streets of their cities and towns in enormous numbers to overthrow the fascist dictatorship of the Estado Novo (‘New State’), formally established in 1926. Fascist Portugal – led first by António de Oliveira Salazar until 1968 and then by Marcelo Caetano – was welcomed into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in 1949, the United Nations in 1955, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in 1961 and signed a pact with the European Economic Community in 1972. The United States and Europe worked closely with the Salazar and Caetano governments, turning a blind eye to their atrocities.
Vanessa Beeley
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